LPPM MMV "Siegel"
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 10 19:31:51 CDT 2004
Dave Monroe wrote:
>
> "Just as Siegel got to the address Rachel had
> given him it started to rain again...." (MMV, p. 1)
>
> Siegel
>
> Who is Jules Siegel?
Jules? A Jewish Catholic boy from the Bronx?
Seems to me that Jules has little to do with the story or the characters
in it.
Protestant-Catholic-Jew
An Essay in American Religious Sociology
by Will Herberg, Martin E. Marty,
Illustrator
http://www.semcoop.com/detail/0226327345
Measure For Measure is Shakespeare's most "Catholic" Play.
Shakespeare, like Pynchon, was a Catholic-Puritan.
Worth considering that P alludes to Joyce too. The Hungarian Bloom.
P was light-years ahead of Updike.
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